Business Description

Empresas ICA SAB de CV was established in 1947. The Company, along with its subsidiaries is engaged in providing construction services for infrastructure projects for the Mexican public sector. Its operations are divided into four business segments: Civil Construction, Concessions, Airports, and Corporate & Other segment. The construction business is represented in Civil Construction segment, through which the Company provides services such as feasibility studies, conceptual design, engineering, procurement, project and construction management, construction, maintenance, technical site evaluations and other consulting services. The civil construction business focuses on infrastructure projects in Mexico, including the construction of roads, highways, transportation facilities bridges, dams, ports, hydroelectric plants, prisons, tunnels, canals and airports, as well as on the construction, development and remodeling of large multi-storied urban buildings, including office buildings, multiple-dwelling housing developments shopping center. The raw materials required for the construction operations are cement, construction aggregates and steel. The Company's Construction segment competes with Spanish and Brazilian companies such as IDEAL and Carso infraestructura y Construcciones, S.A. de C.V., both related parties of Grupo Carso, Tradeco Infraestructura, S.A. de C.V., La Peninsular CompaÃ±ia Constructora S.A. de C.V., a member of Grupo Hermes, Promotora y Desarrolladora Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., Azvi-Cointer de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S.A., or FCC, ACS Actividades de Construcciones y Servicios, S.A. and Dragados S.A. (together, ACS), Constructora Norberto Odebrecht S.A. and Andrade Gutierrez S.A. The Company's Concessions segment focuses on the construction, development, maintenance and operation of long-term concessions of tollroads, tunnels, social infrastructure and water projects. It is engaged in all stages of infrastructure project development, including formulation, engineering, structuring and financing, construction, operation and management as part of a portfolio of assets. The Company operates 13 airports and faces competition from those airports serving other vacation destinations in Mexico, such as Los Cabos, Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, and abroad, such as Puerto Rico, Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, other Caribbean islands and Central America. The Corporate and Other segment includes all real estate operations, including affordable entry-level housing operations as well as corporate operations through Grupo ICA S.A. de C.V. Further, the Company continues to develop vertical residential properties on both Reforma Avenue and Marina Nacional Avenue in Mexico City, and other selected properties that together make up vertical housing business. The Company's operations are subject to both Mexican federal and state laws and regulations relating to the protection of the enviro

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